I'm in Vegas and got the Cisco 2 way tuning adapter from COX. Store didn't have them on the date promised. Tech support had no clue and hadn't heard of them. Brought the "fast connect kit" home with the Cisco STA 1520 adapter 2 days later. Put it inline with coax before the tivo. Things worked the same until 2 weeks ago. I then began losing channels. Tech support was useless. A tech came out and instantly identified the problem. No cable to connect from the STA to the USB on the Tivo in addition to the coax cable jumper. Solved the problem. Two days ago, same channels went missing. Again, tech support was clueless and scheduled a tech visit. Just for the heck of it, unpluged the usb cable and reattached. Tivo reloaded the channels and is working fine. Called COX and cancelled service call. IF YOU SUDDENLY LOSE CHANNELS TRY THIS. A lot less time than the Tivo reboot that COX wants you to do with no impact. Not sure how often this is going to happen, but it is COX your "alleged" friend in the digital age.

Here's a quote of what I posted in the "How do you connect your Tuning Adapter?" thread, in response to a Cox customer having difficulties. There's some difficulties of my own within it:

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They tend to blink in a pattern. The number, speed, and pauses will correlate to what the issue is. You can get that info from Cisco's website.

I hooked up six, they worked fine for a month, then went into "Service Disconnect (brick) mode". Cox fixed the issue by provisioning the TAs. They shouldn't have even worked for the time they did. The S/N of each TA must be provisioned (associated with your account).

The funny thing is, that the first 13 Cox reps I talked to couldn't figure it out. I even specifically asked if they needed to be provisioned, or authorized, like my cablecards. They either had no answer, or said "NO". The 14th rep had the issue fixed in 15 seconds, as the S/Ns were in their system from being picked up at the store, but they had never been provisioned.

Best bet, if you want any channels until you can get them provisioned, is to disconnect the TA entirely. Once it is in brick mode, it will block everything, and removing it will get you the channels that don't require a TA.

Your mileage may vary. Some markets (regions) might not give you any channels at all, if they require a TA, and you disconnect it. I think the reason they couldn't be auto-provisioned, is because they need to be hooked up and booted, so they can send the magic signals at that point.

Just to be clear, when I say disconnect, I mean remove it entirely, USB, coax, power, and all, like as if it isn't even there.

EDIT/ADD: Yet, they still don't actually download anything but an "empty" channel map, and the SDV Link status is never active. I can disconnect them, and NOT LOSE ANY CHANNELS, but if they are connected, and they go into a blink mode of any sort, I DO LOSE EITHER ALL, OR SEVERAL, CHANNELS. WTF?!?!

The only upside, is that now Cox can read the signal levels and SNR remotely. If it wasn't for that, I'd just take them out and wait and see if any channels EVER disappear without them.

The letter stated I would lose MANY channels if not installed... about a month ago.